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Researcher · Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung · Germany

Alois Fürstner

Alois Fürstner publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, on topics such as Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Catalytic Alkyne Reactions and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions.

ORCID 0000-0003-0098-3417 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,999
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#278
of 364,343
Works
1,161
Citations
60k
Citations per work
51.7
h-index
126
i10-index 497Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Alois Fürstner

What does Alois Fürstner research?

Alois Fürstner's work is mostly in Chemistry (69%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Medicine (5%).

Physical Sciences: 827 works · 71.2% of their workChemistry: 806 works · 69.4% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 756 works · 65.1% of their workInorganic Chemistry: 50 works · 4.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 21 works · 1.8% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 21 works · 1.8% of their workLife Sciences: 161 works · 13.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 161 works · 13.9% of their workMolecular Biology: 109 works · 9.4% of their workBiotechnology: 52 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 115 works · 9.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 58 works · 5.0% of their workMedicine: 58 works · 5.0% of their workPharmacology: 58 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAlois Fürstner1,161works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences5%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Chemistry80669.4%
    2. Environmental Science211.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16113.9%
  3. Everything else1159.9%
    1. Medicine585.0%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry65% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology9% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology5% of their works
  4. 4Biotechnology4% of their works
  5. 5Inorganic Chemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alois Fürstner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Enantioselective Synthesis, Transition Metal Catalysis, Olefin Metathesis, Ruthenium Catalysts, C-C Bond Formation, Heterocycles, Drug Discovery and Metal-Catalyzed Reactions.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Enantioselective Synthesis5843 topics
  2. Transition Metal Catalysis3483 topics
  3. Olefin Metathesis3411 topic
  4. Ruthenium Catalysts3411 topic
  5. C-C Bond Formation2652 topics
  6. Heterocycles2312 topics
  7. Drug Discovery2002 topics
  8. Metal-Catalyzed Reactions1782 topics
  9. Gold-Catalyzed Reactions1481 topic
  10. Homogeneous Catalysis1481 topic
  11. Cross-Coupling Reactions1171 topic
  12. Palladium-Catalyzed1171 topic
  13. Foldamers1151 topic
  14. Peptide Synthesis1151 topic
  15. Carbene Chemistry951 topic
  16. Cyclopropanation951 topic
  17. Natural Products851 topic
  18. Secondary Metabolites851 topic
  19. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation831 topic
  20. C–H Activation831 topic
  21. Glycosidase Inhibitors731 topic
  22. Oligosaccharide Synthesis731 topic

Where does Alois Fürstner work?

Alois Fürstner's main affiliation in the publication record is Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Alois Fürstner have?

OpenAlex counts 1,161 works and 60,038 citations for Alois Fürstner, an h-index of 126, ranking #6,999 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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